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Huge pots were bound to happen when some of the best players in the world faced off during the 2023 edition of The Million Dollar Game on the Hustler Casino Live stream. In this poker hand, Doug Polk finds himself in a world of pain with the beautiful pocket aces after LSG Hank shoves over the top of his river value bet. Can Polk soul read Hank and make the correct call?
When you have the nuts on boards that are not very coordinated, you generally want to use a smaller bet size. Your opponents will struggle to have a strong hand as you lock up the board and there will not be any draws for them. Having said that, in deeper-stacked games and against stickier opponents, shifting toward larger bet sizes can also be a profitable play, especially against weaker players that are inelastic to bet size.
Doug Polk ‘WCGRider’ is the owner of The Lodge Card Room along with Brad Owen and Andrew Neeme. Doug has over $9,500,000 in live tournament earnings and 3 World Series Of Poker (WSOP) bracelets, including a win in the 2017 $100k Super High Roller for $1,600,000. Since 2014 he has played over 108 times on live streamed cash games and has won over $180,000.
LSG Hank is introduced as a successful cryptocurrency investor from China. Since 2022, he has played over 13 times on live streamed cash games and has won $14,000.
Hustler Casino Live is a full-scale, high-value poker production. Close to a million dollars was spent transforming the casino’s high-limit poker room, the Crystal Room, into the set of this new state-of-the-art live poker show. Hustler Casino Live looks more like coverage of a TV broadcast sporting event and appeals to those beyond the poker community. Unscripted and unedited, they host regular poker streams such as ‘Max Pain Monday’ and ‘Thirsty Thursday’. Some of the most notable poker players to have appeared on the show are Phil Ivey ‘The Tiger Woods of Poker’ ‘RaiseOnce’, Tom Dwan ’durrrr’, Phil Hellmuth ‘The Poker Brat,’ Chris Moneymaker, Doug Polk ‘WCGRider, Garrett Adelstein ‘Gman’, Tony Guoga ‘Tony G’ and many more.
This was from the fourth and final stream of the highly anticipated 2023 Million Dollar Game, which was a $1,000,000 minimum buy-in cash game. The game was streamed for five evenings straight and featured an array of professional poker players and businessmen competing against one another.
🔍 Preflop:
With a $3,000 big blind ante, Tom Dwan limps under the gun with T2 of diamonds before LSG Hank decides to raise to $6,000 from the hijack with a mystery hand. After the cutoff and button fold, Doug Polk looks down at the best starting hand in poker, pocket aces and three-bets to $30,000. Dwan folds as Hank calls and the two of them head to the flop.
💸 Flop – Qh 4d 3c:
Doug bets $23,000 with his overpair and backdoor wheel draw. Hank makes the call with his unknown hand and they head to the turn.
💣 Turn – 8d:
The 8 of diamonds on the turn introduces a possible backdoor flush draw. Doug bets again with his pocket aces, this time for $81,000. Hank seems to still like his hand as he calls once more to see the river.
🌊 River – 9h:
The backdoor flush draw bricks out and Doug decides to go for value with his pocket rockets, firing a third consecutive street with a $200,000 bet. Hank, having stuck around after Doug barreled all three streets, shoves for the rest of Doug’s stack, for a huge $937,000! Doug is left with just one pair, but what will he do, call or fold? And what could Hank possibly have? Stay tuned until the end of this poker video to find out both!
Jonathan Little analyzes live poker hands from TV poker shows such as Poker After Dark, Hustler Casino Live, The Lodge Poker Club & PokerGO. He also analyzes popular poker vloggers such as Rampage Poker, Brad Owen, Jaman Burton, Ashley Sleeth, Wolfgang Poker and others!
You will also find many poker hands on this channel that contain some of the biggest names in the poker world such as; Daniel Negreanu, Phil Hellmuth, Phil Ivey, Doug Polk, Garrett Adelstein, Tom ‘Durrrr’ Dwan, Dan ‘Jungleman’ Cates, Fedor Holz & many more!
